From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
Subject: Re: Beyond bleeps and bloops: sound in the user interface
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1992 15:43:59 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corporation



In article <1992Jan9.102644.24178@milton.u.washington.edu>, stevef@csl.sony.
co.jp writes:

> So far I have seen people talk about "point source" sounds, speech and
> music.
> 
> ** Begin Vague Idea **
> 
> I have been thinking for some time about the use of "3D sound", not
> just 3D placement of a point source but the sonic equivalent of a
> cylinder.

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> Has anybody worked on this or know of any work???
> 
> Most computer users would not mind wearing small headphones, esp. if
> you let them play music thru them too, and the cost is quite low.

The National Center for Supercompting Applications has been working on 
"Sonification", a way of visualizing data use sound.  I don't know a whole
lot about the project but I do know people at NCSA read this and maybe
one of them could enlighten us.

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